And you can still go read unsecured websites. Your browser lets you know of the risks, but it's not straight up blocked, and if it were, it'd be easy to use another browser if you need access to those unsecured websites.
HTTP allows those changes to occur through MITM-type attacks, whereas HTTPS requires the client or server to be compromised. Considering the number of governments with the means and interests to perform MITM attacks, I'd say it's an absolutely valid concern.
If all you want is to be able to browse the latest graphics research papers in a convenient fashion, the #1 site to go to is Ke-Sen Huang's page. Every paper released at every major conference from the past 10 to 20 years is there, with links to everything you'd want: ACM reference page, free access preprint if available, website for the paper if available, etc. It's an amazing resource and something you just have to have bookmarked.
If you want something more curated, it becomes trickier, but a fun way of doing it is to look for the "technical papers preview" videos online for SIGGRAPH. A fairly long-standing tradition of that particular conference is to kick off the whole thing with a very short, usually humorous blurb of every technical paper being presented that year, done by the authors of each paper, in one giant marathon session on the first day. Each paper gets like 30 seconds to pitch its idea and show it off visually, and while you can't find the full 2-3 hour presentation that contains all of them, there's usually a shortened version online with some interesting/promising examples.
Shor's algorithm allows factorization of numbers large enough that the keys would become uselessly big. It'd be much more efficient to just move to a new encryption scheme which isn't vulnerable.
Problem with that logic is that you won't be able to transition to the new encryption scheme smoothly. There's invariably going to be a gap period where quantum computers able to break current encryption are available but quantum encryption isn't yet widespread. Knowing the industry and how many people will readily skimp on IT for a few bucks more profit, I expect it'd take years to make such a transition.
Uh, you must've missed the proof of concept quantum computers which used Shor's algorithm to factor large numbers, which is the only requisite step to break traditional asymmetrical encryption like RSA. The proof worked with 21 as a "large" number, but since it's been shown to work, the rest is just scaling up.
The scaling up is probably going to take longer than five years, but on the other hand we are not aware of what the NSA is doing in secret. Funding is the big deal there and that's one thing they're not short on.
Addressing AGW and pollution go hand in hand. Unfortunately for your argumentation, very few problems we have currently exhibit runaway buildup patterns, whereas AGW does. If we do not address global warming quickly and decisively, we flat out won't be able to fix it before a large portion of humanity is affected in a severe fashion. Yes, we should also help the poor and the hungry, cure diseases and many more things besides, but none of those have a harsh deadline attached to them. Moreover, none of this is a zero-sum game: people working on AGW wouldn't be working on cancer no matter what your desires and funding priorities are.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. As it is, the US has shown that it is not willing, as a nation, to do anything to address AGW or even just harmful pollution, usually under the pretense that other nations aren't doing their part or that the accords don't go far enough. The latter is especially hypocritical considering the focus is on killing attempts at monitoring emissions and trying to restart antiquated, dirty forms of power production.
Uh, you realize unlocking it will unlock the USB right back, right? If the inconvenience of putting in a PIN or touching your finger on the reader once after a week is too much, then just don't use any kind of authentication and the phone won't ever go in restricted mode.
I'm sure we're both reading the same Wikipedia page rather than the actual Act, which conveniently summarizes activities which are allowed and disallowed depending on their level of restriction. Your quoted exemption is only for additional restrictions. All federal employees are still affected by the Hatch Act, the only difference is to which extent. Specifically, even employees not covered by the more restrictive policies still may not:
- use official authority or influence to interfere with an election
...
- engage in political activity while:
- on duty
- in a government office
- wearing an official uniform
- using a government vehicle
Both of these points are applicable to the statement O'Reilly made. Funny how the office tasked with enforcing the Act would know more about it than a random Slashdotter, eh?
Make the notch more round, like the Essential's. Then emphasize the camera a bit more, perhaps with a gray ring around it. Then make the phone talk with a male voice and add a red LED in the camera assembly. Yeah, I think there's no way this could possibly go wrong.
Nvidia has a huge amount of expertise in machine learning, makes some of the best machine learning hardware out there, and designs the hardware for many higher end car entertainment/smart systems. Their research division has been branching out into machine learning for years by now and puts them at the forefront of the wave, they're just less outspoken about it outside of the industry. Self-driving cars are an obvious application of machine learning and thus prime territory for Nvidia to investigate.
The headline is obviously sensationalized, but Intel's always been pretty forward looking in their planning. They have to act now if they want to face challenges 5 years down the line as ARM takes more and more marketshare. When you're dealing with CPU designs and fabs, you can't turn on a dime.
If you think Intel's demise is at the hands of AMD, you're deluding yourself. Intel's scared because the entire x86 market is shrinking and they don't have a presence in other markets. AMD is in the exact same spot while being substantially smaller and dragging along a seriously hurt GPU division. I'd be delighted to see more competition in the x86 space and Ryzen will certainly help, but that's not what Intel's concerned about here.
Shouldn't the so-called "conservative" judges be in favor of personal privacy, against governmental overreach, and pro-business? The definition of conservative seems to get twisted more and more every day.
Asking for $600M for a botched up laptop sure is gonna make the news in a few places like here (especially because anything Microsoft is clickbait on/.), but "recruit public opinion to work for him"? Fat chance, he just sounds like a whiny cheapskate.
The social norm that men approach women, in real life is tempered by the fact that women have multiple ways in communicating their interest without doing the main approach - through looks, touch, etc., in a way that is ambiguous and deniable. You can negotiate interest without actually breaking the 'order'.
I think we're headed straight for a big culture shock in that particular aspect though. As women rightfully rectify the state of things regarding sexual harassment, assault, etc., the expectation that ambiguity in responding to advances is acceptable will also have to vanish. Most men will not attempt an advance if the response could potentially turn into some form of accusation of depravity. Women will have to be more direct and obvious in their responses, or we'll see a sharp decline in relationships as overly cautious males avoid ambiguous women (which is currently still the majority of them). You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Mind you, I see that as a good thing. As a man, the last thing I want is to have to decipher the mess of social cues and ambiguous responses that women use. Give me a firm "yes" or "no" so we can both get on with our lives, and if that makes women have to shoulder part of the emotional distress that comes with rejection rather than just delay and muddy the waters until the man gives up? That's called equality.
I'll absolutely agree on the lack of venues and cultural issues, but I disagree it's about an opportunity problem for socialization. If that were the case, men and women should realistically be affected to a similar extent, but that's not the case. The problem is almost exclusively cultural, in that men are expected to court women and thus women tend to have an easier time finding relationships without having to resort to online dating.
None of this is even remotely of the same magnitude as the core issue of online dating: men outnumber women on all these sites by a factor of 10:1, if not worse. Women get overwhelmed by the number of messages they receive and either drop out of the service or become extremely picky. Men end up with an extremely low positive response rate and so turn towards a "shotgun" approach of just sending identical messages to dozens or even hundreds of women, further exacerbating the issue.
As long as the gender imbalance isn't solved, online dating is going to remain a game of chance and a mess for both genders. Right now, all it's doing is taking the already fairly dated (but still very widespread) social norm that men should be the ones initiating romantic advances (and therefore take on the numerous refusals and the emotional toll that goes along with them) and push it to a ridiculous limit.
It's not even arguing for hiring worse people, it's arguing that we don't have a clear, reliable way to determine who's the best, so we should use different criteria instead. That's got nothing to do with whether hiring the best people is a bad idea.
That's why you have vocal instructions, a not recent at all innovation that allows you to keep your eyes on the road while still following GPS directions.
There's also another element to keep in mind: cancer doesn't spread between individuals. That means cancer cannot evolve counters to our treatments beyond the singular individual being treated: every new treatment we find will be equally likely to work now as in a hundred years. This makes cancer a lot more manageable than bacteria, which can develop immunity to antibiotics.
Essentially, once we have a type of cancer beaten, it should remain beaten. Every step we take, every battle we win, is a step towards our victory against cancer.
Public research allows fundamental research (where motivations like profit are not viable). Private research fine-tunes fundamental research into a marketable, efficient, easily manufactured product. Both are necessary for healthy R&D.
Holy shit this is bad reporting. Nowhere on the Nvidia page does it say that GPUs are actually affected by Spectre or Meltdown. It's in fact impossible since GPUs don't perform speculative execution. On top of that, GPUs don't run kernel code (so cannot leak it), don't run an OS, have a completely different architecture to begin with and so on.
So what's this announcement about? It's a driver update to mitigate Spectre/Meltdown which could potentially affect the driver's CPU code. This has also been confirmed by Nvidia many days ago.
Shameful reporting by Engadget, not that I'm surprised considering they barely qualify as "tech" reporting.
This is making sure by design they (and maybe their partners, workforce, ex-workforce and 3-letter agencies) have acces to your private data.
Oh, cut the crap out with the conspiracy theories. The MyCloud system is all about allowing external access of your data (so you have your own "cloud" hosted locally), so it makes sense there'll be a way to access it. This is just plain laziness combined with zero oversight and total carelessness. It's awful, WD should be ashamed of themselves, but jumping to the "IT'S THE GUBINMENT STEALIN YER DATA" just makes you look like a fool.
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And you can still go read unsecured websites. Your browser lets you know of the risks, but it's not straight up blocked, and if it were, it'd be easy to use another browser if you need access to those unsecured websites.
HTTP allows those changes to occur through MITM-type attacks, whereas HTTPS requires the client or server to be compromised. Considering the number of governments with the means and interests to perform MITM attacks, I'd say it's an absolutely valid concern.
If all you want is to be able to browse the latest graphics research papers in a convenient fashion, the #1 site to go to is Ke-Sen Huang's page. Every paper released at every major conference from the past 10 to 20 years is there, with links to everything you'd want: ACM reference page, free access preprint if available, website for the paper if available, etc. It's an amazing resource and something you just have to have bookmarked.
If you want something more curated, it becomes trickier, but a fun way of doing it is to look for the "technical papers preview" videos online for SIGGRAPH. A fairly long-standing tradition of that particular conference is to kick off the whole thing with a very short, usually humorous blurb of every technical paper being presented that year, done by the authors of each paper, in one giant marathon session on the first day. Each paper gets like 30 seconds to pitch its idea and show it off visually, and while you can't find the full 2-3 hour presentation that contains all of them, there's usually a shortened version online with some interesting/promising examples.
Shor's algorithm allows factorization of numbers large enough that the keys would become uselessly big. It'd be much more efficient to just move to a new encryption scheme which isn't vulnerable.
Problem with that logic is that you won't be able to transition to the new encryption scheme smoothly. There's invariably going to be a gap period where quantum computers able to break current encryption are available but quantum encryption isn't yet widespread. Knowing the industry and how many people will readily skimp on IT for a few bucks more profit, I expect it'd take years to make such a transition.
Uh, you must've missed the proof of concept quantum computers which used Shor's algorithm to factor large numbers, which is the only requisite step to break traditional asymmetrical encryption like RSA. The proof worked with 21 as a "large" number, but since it's been shown to work, the rest is just scaling up.
The scaling up is probably going to take longer than five years, but on the other hand we are not aware of what the NSA is doing in secret. Funding is the big deal there and that's one thing they're not short on.
Addressing AGW and pollution go hand in hand. Unfortunately for your argumentation, very few problems we have currently exhibit runaway buildup patterns, whereas AGW does. If we do not address global warming quickly and decisively, we flat out won't be able to fix it before a large portion of humanity is affected in a severe fashion. Yes, we should also help the poor and the hungry, cure diseases and many more things besides, but none of those have a harsh deadline attached to them. Moreover, none of this is a zero-sum game: people working on AGW wouldn't be working on cancer no matter what your desires and funding priorities are.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. As it is, the US has shown that it is not willing, as a nation, to do anything to address AGW or even just harmful pollution, usually under the pretense that other nations aren't doing their part or that the accords don't go far enough. The latter is especially hypocritical considering the focus is on killing attempts at monitoring emissions and trying to restart antiquated, dirty forms of power production.
Uh, you realize unlocking it will unlock the USB right back, right? If the inconvenience of putting in a PIN or touching your finger on the reader once after a week is too much, then just don't use any kind of authentication and the phone won't ever go in restricted mode.
Both of these points are applicable to the statement O'Reilly made. Funny how the office tasked with enforcing the Act would know more about it than a random Slashdotter, eh?
Make the notch more round, like the Essential's. Then emphasize the camera a bit more, perhaps with a gray ring around it. Then make the phone talk with a male voice and add a red LED in the camera assembly. Yeah, I think there's no way this could possibly go wrong.
Nvidia has a huge amount of expertise in machine learning, makes some of the best machine learning hardware out there, and designs the hardware for many higher end car entertainment/smart systems. Their research division has been branching out into machine learning for years by now and puts them at the forefront of the wave, they're just less outspoken about it outside of the industry. Self-driving cars are an obvious application of machine learning and thus prime territory for Nvidia to investigate.
The headline is obviously sensationalized, but Intel's always been pretty forward looking in their planning. They have to act now if they want to face challenges 5 years down the line as ARM takes more and more marketshare. When you're dealing with CPU designs and fabs, you can't turn on a dime.
If you think Intel's demise is at the hands of AMD, you're deluding yourself. Intel's scared because the entire x86 market is shrinking and they don't have a presence in other markets. AMD is in the exact same spot while being substantially smaller and dragging along a seriously hurt GPU division. I'd be delighted to see more competition in the x86 space and Ryzen will certainly help, but that's not what Intel's concerned about here.
Shouldn't the so-called "conservative" judges be in favor of personal privacy, against governmental overreach, and pro-business? The definition of conservative seems to get twisted more and more every day.
Asking for $600M for a botched up laptop sure is gonna make the news in a few places like here (especially because anything Microsoft is clickbait on /.), but "recruit public opinion to work for him"? Fat chance, he just sounds like a whiny cheapskate.
The social norm that men approach women, in real life is tempered by the fact that women have multiple ways in communicating their interest without doing the main approach - through looks, touch, etc., in a way that is ambiguous and deniable. You can negotiate interest without actually breaking the 'order'.
I think we're headed straight for a big culture shock in that particular aspect though. As women rightfully rectify the state of things regarding sexual harassment, assault, etc., the expectation that ambiguity in responding to advances is acceptable will also have to vanish. Most men will not attempt an advance if the response could potentially turn into some form of accusation of depravity. Women will have to be more direct and obvious in their responses, or we'll see a sharp decline in relationships as overly cautious males avoid ambiguous women (which is currently still the majority of them). You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Mind you, I see that as a good thing. As a man, the last thing I want is to have to decipher the mess of social cues and ambiguous responses that women use. Give me a firm "yes" or "no" so we can both get on with our lives, and if that makes women have to shoulder part of the emotional distress that comes with rejection rather than just delay and muddy the waters until the man gives up? That's called equality.
I'll absolutely agree on the lack of venues and cultural issues, but I disagree it's about an opportunity problem for socialization. If that were the case, men and women should realistically be affected to a similar extent, but that's not the case. The problem is almost exclusively cultural, in that men are expected to court women and thus women tend to have an easier time finding relationships without having to resort to online dating.
None of this is even remotely of the same magnitude as the core issue of online dating: men outnumber women on all these sites by a factor of 10:1, if not worse. Women get overwhelmed by the number of messages they receive and either drop out of the service or become extremely picky. Men end up with an extremely low positive response rate and so turn towards a "shotgun" approach of just sending identical messages to dozens or even hundreds of women, further exacerbating the issue.
As long as the gender imbalance isn't solved, online dating is going to remain a game of chance and a mess for both genders. Right now, all it's doing is taking the already fairly dated (but still very widespread) social norm that men should be the ones initiating romantic advances (and therefore take on the numerous refusals and the emotional toll that goes along with them) and push it to a ridiculous limit.
It's not even arguing for hiring worse people, it's arguing that we don't have a clear, reliable way to determine who's the best, so we should use different criteria instead. That's got nothing to do with whether hiring the best people is a bad idea.
That's why you have vocal instructions, a not recent at all innovation that allows you to keep your eyes on the road while still following GPS directions.
There's also another element to keep in mind: cancer doesn't spread between individuals. That means cancer cannot evolve counters to our treatments beyond the singular individual being treated: every new treatment we find will be equally likely to work now as in a hundred years. This makes cancer a lot more manageable than bacteria, which can develop immunity to antibiotics.
Essentially, once we have a type of cancer beaten, it should remain beaten. Every step we take, every battle we win, is a step towards our victory against cancer.
Public research allows fundamental research (where motivations like profit are not viable). Private research fine-tunes fundamental research into a marketable, efficient, easily manufactured product. Both are necessary for healthy R&D.
Holy shit this is bad reporting. Nowhere on the Nvidia page does it say that GPUs are actually affected by Spectre or Meltdown. It's in fact impossible since GPUs don't perform speculative execution. On top of that, GPUs don't run kernel code (so cannot leak it), don't run an OS, have a completely different architecture to begin with and so on.
So what's this announcement about? It's a driver update to mitigate Spectre/Meltdown which could potentially affect the driver's CPU code. This has also been confirmed by Nvidia many days ago.
Shameful reporting by Engadget, not that I'm surprised considering they barely qualify as "tech" reporting.
This is making sure by design they (and maybe their partners, workforce, ex-workforce and 3-letter agencies) have acces to your private data.
Oh, cut the crap out with the conspiracy theories. The MyCloud system is all about allowing external access of your data (so you have your own "cloud" hosted locally), so it makes sense there'll be a way to access it. This is just plain laziness combined with zero oversight and total carelessness. It's awful, WD should be ashamed of themselves, but jumping to the "IT'S THE GUBINMENT STEALIN YER DATA" just makes you look like a fool.